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The Apartment Advisor is a 12 page newsletter, published six times a year. Subscribers also get access to an online 5-page weekly apartment investment update (more about this) and other resources.
Each issue of the newsletter discusses the most significant findings from our other research publications, as well as regional economic, political, and community issues and forces impacting the Puget Sound region's apartment investment and rental market. We also provide three-year forecasts for rents, vacancies, prices, and other indicators at least twice a year.
You get up-to-date advice and opinions, not only from Dupre + Scott, but from a number of industry experts. We regularly survey developers, investors, professional property managers, architects, lenders, brokers. appraisers, economists, and other professionals active in our market for their insights, recommendations, and forecasts.
If you subscribe on May 9, 2008, you have immediate online access to the current (April 2008) issue, published April 11, 2008. Your online access expires on March 30, 2009 and includes access to the weekly investment update. Your complete subscription includes the current and next five issues of the newsletter.
If you want to begin your subscription with an earlier date, or the next issue rather than the current issue, please contact us. (Note: First time subscribers usually do not get a full year's access online. That's due to the timing of our publication dates. However, timely renewals do get a full year of online access.)
The Apartment Advisor costs $130.00 for six issues and includes online weekly 5-page apartment investment updates (plus sales tax where applicable).
The information in The Apartment Advisor focuses primarily on trends in the region. While we will regularly discuss submarkets, the newsletter is not meant to be a source for tracking submarket or neighborhood trends. That's the job of our other reports.
The Apartment Advisor provides subscribers with a macro view, or "big picture" view of the market. It is mostly our discussion and interpretation of trends, along with other observations and forecasts. By comparison, our other reports do not provide observations, detailed discussions, or forecasts. They just provide current and historical data.
The variety of sources we use, the summaries of key findings from our other detailed research projects, and the overall insights in each issue, make The Apartment Advisor a useful resource for anyone interested in the Puget Sound region's apartment market.
You can download a sample issue (8 page 120kb PDF)
We update our online database of apartment sales almost every Friday morning and publish a "weekly investment update" for Apartment Advisor subscribers. (more about this)
The format is simple: one or more articles in each issue backed up with tables, graphs, historical information, input from others, summaries of key findings from all of our research reports, and forecasts.
| March. Apartment operating and capital expense trends and forecast, from the results of our annual analysis of year-end statements for more than 70,000 units in the region (published in our Apartment Expense Report). |
| April. Rental market trends, including rents, vacancies, concessions, new construction, absorption, the economy and its impact, and more, from the results of our semiannual survey of more than 170,000 rental units in the region for our Apartment Vacancy Report and the results of our semiannual Apartment Development Report. This issue also updates our rental market and investment forecast of key indicators. |
| June. Investment trends, including prices, capitalization rates, financing, yields, appreciation, and more, from our ongoing survey of 5-unit and larger apartment sales in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties, published in our Apartment Investment Report. This issue also updates our rental market and investment forecast of key indicators. |
| August. Although we tend to discuss whatever is on our minds in our regular issues through the year, we reserve the August issue to be our forum for any topic we think will be of interest to our subscribers. |
| October. Rental market trends, including rents, vacancies, concessions, new construction, absorption, the economy and its impact, and more, from the results of our semiannual survey of more than 170,000 rental units in the region for our Apartment Vacancy Report and the results of our semiannual Apartment Development Report. This issue also updates our rental market and investment forecast of key indicators. |
| December. Annual forecast issue. This issue discusses the apartment trends from all of our research, ties these trends in with economic trends and interviews, and ends with our annual forecast of supply, demand, and investment performance. |
The Apartment Advisor combines our observations and forecasts of the market trends as well as comments from investors, developers, lenders, and other real estate professionals active in this market. Although the focus of the newsletter is our discussion and interpretation of market trends, each issue also includes tables and graphs showing the trends discussed, usually at the regional or Tri-county level. At least three issues a year also include our forecast of key indicators.
The Apartment Advisor forecasts are based on a forecast model we developed using long-term historical trends from our various research reports and the relationships we have found between these trends and with economic and financial data and forecasts we collect from other sources.
We do provide a "100% accuracy guarantee" with our forecasts. We guarantee that our forecasts will be wrong 100% of the time. All forecasts are. Even when they are right, they are wrong, because they usually turn out right for the wrong reasons.
But we do something to make our forecasts useful to you: we explain our underlying assumptions and discuss the data we use. That way you can use your own judgment to determine whether or not you agree with our logic.
Although forecasts are wrong, our forecasts do have a pretty good track record and, as a result, are a useful indicator.
In addition to the printed version of the newsletter sent by mail, subscribers can also access the current issue online immediately upon subscribing to the report. This online capability means you have access to The Apartment Advisor from anywhere at any time, as long as you have access to the internet.
Apartment buyers can get a free one year subscription by participating in our investment survey whenever they purchase a 5-unit or larger apartment property in King, Pierce, or Snohomish County. (Learn more about participating.)
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